Rabab Yasseen

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Rabab Yasseen is a partner with MENTHA Avocats in Geneva, and also serves as deputy judge to the Geneva Civil Courts. She is member of the World Bank Sanctions Board, the Vice President of the OPEC Fund Administrative Tribunal and a member of the OPEC Appeals Committee.

Rabab specializes in international arbitration, and has been acting as counsel/arbitrator (Sole/Chair/co-arbitrator) in Ad Hoc arbitration proceedings, as well as under various arbitration rules. She was a member of the CAS Ad Hoc Division for the Rio Olympic Games in 2016. 

She is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration & ADR, of the ILA International Commercial Arbitration Committee and a co-Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration. Rabab is a regular delegate to the works of UNCITRAL, and is currently a delegate to the sessions of Working Group III on “the investor-State dispute settlement reform”.

She holds degrees in law, history and literature from the University of Geneva, as well as an LLM in international business law from Kings College London. She is admitted to the Geneva bar and as a Solicitor to the Supreme Court (England and Wales). She is a CEDR accredited mediator. She is fluent in English, French and Arabic.


Events

09:00 AM - 04:20 PM

07 March, 2024

GAR Live: Riyadh

Global Arbitration Review

English & Arabic
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